“Saturday Night Live” boss Lorne Michaels said TikTok helped to drive the show’s stunning turnover recently.
Appearing on the Emmys red carpet Sunday before he won an award for SNL’s 50th anniversary special, the producer was asked by “Entertainment Tonight” host Nischelle Turner about the changes. “What decision goes into that?” she asked.
“The show has always brought people in from new, different ages and different generations, and it has to, it’s how it revives itself,” he said. “It’s always hard when people leave, but there’s a time for that. And our audiences always stay relatively young, more so now with TikTok.”
“Change is good,” he continued. “And the people we’re bringing in, I’m really excited about.”
But it was people on the way out who spurred much buzz lately.
